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SUMMARY:New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Saturday 31 January 2026\nEntry Fee: £10 for one entry\, £19 for two entries\, £27 for three entries\nPrizes: 1st Place: £1\,100; 2nd Place: £300; 3rd Place: £200\nWord Limit: 300 (excluding title)\nEligibility: Anyone aged 18 years or older (at the time of entry) from anywhere in the world\nCharity:  10% of proceeds with be donated to charity (split between First Story and the Funzi & Bodo Trust)\nCategory: Flash Fiction Competitions\nCompetition Website: newwriters.org.uk/flash-fiction-competition\n\nThe New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026 is seeking imaginative\, thought-provoking flash fiction stories. With a prize fund of £1\,600 and the winners getting published on the website and in a future New Writers Anthology\, this is a great competition for new and experienced writers to get their work out there. \nNote that 10% of the proceeds from this competition will be donated to charity\, split between the excellent creative writing charity\, First Story and the Funzi and Bodo Trust. They both do brilliant work so even if you don’t win\, you’ll still be contributing to a good cause. \nLow Income Entries: We want to make the competition accessible to as many writers as possible. We have therefore funded a limited number of free entries for low-income writers. These are available on a first-come\, first-served basis (though no later than 15th January 2026\, one entry per person). Please see the terms and conditions for details. (The free entries are funded in part thanks to the generous donations made to our Ko-fi page.) \nSo if you can tell a compelling story in 300 words or fewer\, enter our Flash Fiction Competition.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/new-writers-flash-fiction-competition-2026/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:New Writers Festive 50-Word Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Friday 12th December 2025\nEntry Fee: FREE to newsletter subscribers (which is also free)\nPrizes: 1st Place: £50 plus one free entry to the New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2026\nPublication: On the NewWriters.org.uk website and in the next New Writers Anthology\nWord Limit: 50 words (excluding title)\nTheme: Festive\nCategory: Flash Fiction / Poetry Competitions\nHow to Enter: Sign up to our free monthly newsletter (if you haven’t already)\, and submit your entry through the form.\n\nThis competition is free to enter\, but entrants must sign up to the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter (use THIS LINK to sign up if you haven’t already). \nOur monthly newsletter includes details of upcoming writing competitions (including our current Flash Fiction Competition with a £1\,100 top prize!)\, along with tips and prompts and other news or offers we think might interest writers. We don’t share subscribers’ information with anyone else. \nYour festive-themed entry of up to 50 words can be prose or poetry. Please give your entry a title that isn’t ‘Festive’ and please don’t include your name on the entry. One entry per person. \nEntry to this free competition assumes you accept the following terms and conditions: \n\nEntries must be the sole work of the entrant and no AI or similar software may have been used to write it. One entry per person.\nEntries must be unpublished\, either in print or online (including social media).\nEntrants must be aged 16 years or older at the time of entry.\nEntries must be related to the theme of ‘Festive’ – though you can interpret that as loosely as you like.\nThe winner of competition will be paid a £50 prize and will receive one free entry to the New Writers Flash Fiction Competition 2025 (worth £10\, deadline 31st January 2026).\nResults of the competition will be published in the NewWriters.org.uk newsletter in December 2025 and the winning entry will be published on the website soon after and in the Anthology in 2026.\n\nNew Writers Festive 50-Word Writing Competition 2025 – Entry Form\nYour email *First Name(s) *Last Name *Pen Name or Alias (if applicable)The name you would like us to use if you make the short or longlist (or you win!)Title of Entry *Upload your entry *Choose FileNo file chosenDelete uploaded fileTick to confirm you have read and agree to the competition terms and conditions and that you have signed up to the free New Writers Newsletter. SUBMITPlease do not fill in this field.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/festive-50-word-competition-2025/
CATEGORIES:Flash Fiction Competitions,Poetry Competitions
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SUMMARY:Globe Soup 2025 Open Short Story Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on 16 December 2025\nEntry Fee: EARLY FEE:  £8 one story\, £12 two stories\, £15 three stories; General Fee: £16 one story\, £24 two stories\, £30 three stories\nPrizes: Winner: £2\,000; Second: £1\,000; Third: £500; Additional £1\,500 prize draw (available to all)\nWord Limit: Up to 8\,000 words (no minimum)\nCategory: Short Story Competitions\nCompetition Website:  globesoup.net/2025-open-short-story-competition\n\nFriends of NewWriters.org.uk\, Globe Soup are one of our favourite writing organisations\, and their 2025 Open Short Story Competition is well wroth entering.\nThere’s a great top prize of £2\,000\, but also £1\,000 for second and £500 for third. In addition\, there’s a £1\,500 prize draw that one lucky entrant will win\, irrespective of whether their entry wins a prize or makes the shortlist. \nThe competition will particularly suit those who are heartened by the generous word limit of 8\,000. There’s also the option of receiving a critique on your entry or entries (£25 per entry)\, and there’s the opportunity to receive feedback BEFORE you enter from others in the Globe Soup community.  \nFor writers who want to take part in regular competitions but also be part of an online writing community\, Globe Soup is a brilliant option. As well as the open competitions (like this one) which are outlined on their website\, they also have an amazing members-only Facebook group. The group is a forum in which writers of all types and experience levels can support one another’s endeavours\, share success stories and generally chat about writing. But there are also loads of members-only competitions available\, most with cash prizes\, that are well worth checking out\, including their 7 Day Story Writing Challenges.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/globe-soup-open-short-story/
CATEGORIES:Short Story Competitions
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SUMMARY:Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (ET) 29th December 2025\nEntry Fee: $20; Additional entries $10\nPrizes: 2-4 Winners are announced who are published and share in the $1000 USD total prize pool. 10-20 writers Shortlisted. All entries considered for publication\, and for submission to the Pushcart.\nWord Limit: 5\,000 words\nCategory: Nonfiction competition\nCompetition Website: letterreview.com/information/\n\nThe Letter Review Prize is a regular writing competition split into the following categories: Short Fiction\, Poetry\, Nonfiction\, Art and Books. It offers cash prizes and publication to the winners. You can access previous winners on the Letter Review site to give you an idea of what floats their boat. The judges will be Kita Das and Dr. Ol James. \nThe Nonfiction Prize is open to anyone in the world and is open to all forms of nonfiction including memoir\, journalism\, essay (including personal essay)\, fictocriticism\, creative nonfiction\, travel\, nature\, and opinion.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/letter-review-prize-nonfiction/
CATEGORIES:Non-fiction Competitions
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SUMMARY:Farnham’s First Five Pages Writing Competition
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 23.59 (UK time) on Wednesday 31st December 2025\nEntry Fee: £10 per entry\nPrizes: First prize:  £1000 + a Literary Critique; Second place: £300; Third place: £200\nWord Limit: First 5 pages of a novel and a 250-word synopsis\nJudges: BA Paris\, Sue Stephenson\, Melanie Whipman\, Guy Morpuss and Louise Morrish\nCategory: Novel Competitions\nCompetition Website: farnhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/literary-writing-competition\n\nFarnham’s First Five Pages writing competition is part of the annual Farnham Literary Festival which will take place from 5th – 15th March 2026.  \nEntrants are asked to submit the first 5 pages of their novel and a 250-word synopsis\, their work does not have to be finished. There is no set theme or style of writing however the entry should be an unpublished\, original story. The judges will agree on a longlist of 20 submissions and 10 will be shortlisted. The longlist announcement will be made on Monday 16th February 2026\, the shortlist announcement on Friday 27th February 2026 and the results on Sunday 15th March 2026. An award ceremony will be held on Sunday 15th March 2025 at Farnham Town Hall.  \nParticipants must be 18 and over\, an unpublished writer (self-published writers are eligible\, but the work itself must not be published anywhere). Only fiction work will be accepted and must be original. All entries are judged anonymously.  \nThe entries will be judged by authors BA Paris\, Sue Stephenson\, Melanie Whipman\, Guy Morpuss and Louise Morrish.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/farnhams-first-five-pages-writing-competition/
CATEGORIES:Novel Competitions
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SUMMARY:The Moth Poetry Prize 2025
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: 31 December 2025\nEntry Fee: €16 per poem\nPrizes: 1st Place: €6\,000; 3x runner-up prizes of €1\,000; 8x prizes of €250 for commended poems\nLine Limit: No limit\nJudge: Ishion Hutchinson (winner of numerous poetry prizes and Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in New York)\nCategory: Poetry Competitions\nCompetition Website: themothmagazine.com\n\nCompetition Details\nThe Moth Poetry Prize offers a whopping €6\,000 prize\, which is one of the biggest out there for a single poem. There are also three runners-up prizes of €1\,000 and eight prizes of €250 for commended poems.  \nThe competition is open to poems that have never been published\, self-published\, published online or broadcast. Unlike many poetry competitions\, there is no line limit\, and poems can be about any subject you like. \nThe judge for the competition is Ishion Hutchinson\, who is the author of three poetry collections\, is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry\, among others. He is Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in New York and recently published his essay collection\, Fugitive Tilts\, which New York Magazine described as ‘thrilling’. \nThere’s no specific time given for the close of entries on 31 December 2025\, so don’t leave it until the last minute. The cost to enter is €16 per poem and you need to make the payment through PayPal.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/moth-poetry-prize/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Competitions
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